Skrillex

Sonny John Moore, better known by his stage name Skrillex, is an American electronic musician and singer-songwriter raised in Northeast Los Angeles and in Northern California. He is best associated with the dubstep and electro house genres. In contrast to the complexity of his music & sound design, has been known to compose and record on a fairly minimal and portable studio setup, centered around a MacBook Pro and Ableton Live software.

The Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 audio interface is an integral part of Skrillex'... more

The Focusrite Saffire PRO 14 audio interface is an integral part of Skrillex's mobile studio setup. When asked about it he says "I've got a MacBook Pro running Ableton Live with two little KRK monitors and a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 interface."

Towards the end of this Vine video clip posted by Skrillex of his studio setu... more

Towards the end of this Vine video clip posted by Skrillex of his studio setup, his studio desk can be seen. The Antelope Audio Orion 32 can be seen on the right side rack below the Barefoot monitor speaker.

The chair Skrillex is using at the desk where he produces is a Herman Miller ... more

The chair Skrillex is using at the desk where he produces is a Herman Miller Aeron Chair, which can be distinguished by the "woven" look and the V-shaped frame on the back (seen at the very end of the Vine video).

In this youtube video, Skrillex Is playing at the Creamfields festival in 201... more

In this youtube video, Skrillex Is playing at the Creamfields festival in 2011. If you look closely around 0:33, you can see a Native Instruments Audio 2 DJ soundcard. It is to the left of his Macbook Pro and Above his M-Audio Trigger Finger.

In this Vine video clip, Skrillex is making some sounds using Ableton and Nat... more

In this Vine video clip, Skrillex is making some sounds using Ableton and Native Instrument's Massive Synth. He says, "Just makin/demoing some new fun soundz #ableton #massive" (clip is dated March 2013).

In a November 2011 interview with Music Radar, he says, "My two personal favourites are NI's Massive and FM8... I haven't really expanded too far off FM8 and Massive because I know them so well and can pretty much make any sound I want with them - especially with FM synthesis, which is so basic." The original source article can be found here.

In an interview with iZotope, Skrillex talks about some of his favorite featu... more

In an interview with iZotope, Skrillex talks about some of his favorite features of Ozone:

"Ozone is just super-versatile. The Multiband Stereo Imaging is really nice, and you can bus a ton of things to it for different reasons. I'm actually next to [dubstep producer and DJ] Flux Pavilion right now, and he says it's fucking wicked for everything, really. Everybody uses it. I use it as a multi-band compressor on individual channels—I'll bus out multiple channels if I just want some stereo imaging, and the EQ in there is very nice too. I use the Multiband Dynamics and the Harmonic Exciter on a lot of shit, and the Maximizer too. I really use it all. It's just cool to have so many choices in one.

I think where it's really helped me is to create the illusion of a lot of stereo stuff going on, without getting the phase problems. You can use Ozone's stereo imaging and take frequencies above seven thousand [7 kHz], or even a little bit lower, and you can widen everything up there, so that the mix starts to sound a lot wider. In an environment where you're performing live, where a lot of times you have distortion and different high frequencies bouncing around the room, you don't necessarily need those to be as present, but when the higher end stuff starts phasing, because you've widened everything, it almost tightens up your mix. For how bright and how chaotic my mixes are, I think they work really well in the club because I've widened the stereo image. If you do that at a lower frequency band, you get phasing and lose the notation, or lose the actual definition of the synth line. But if you brighten things up at the very top of everything, it gives the illusion of a big wide mix."

In an interview with MusicRadar from November 2011, Skrillex says his mastering chain "literally consists of an iZotope Maximizer, maybe with a little bit of EQ and harmonic excitement, but that's it." The Maximizer is part of the complete Ozone software package.

When asked about his favorite gear, Skrillex talks about the iZotope Trash pl... more

When asked about his favorite gear, Skrillex talks about the iZotope Trash plugin:

"...these days I really like iZotope's Trash, actually. It's pretty cool. I've been using it on random things. It's like, here's a sound and I don't really know what to do with it, and I throw it on and start fucking with it, and it becomes something else. It's one of those plug-ins that I'm not totally familiar with yet, but I like messing around with it because it can change an interesting sound into something more random... Trash is something I'd like to explore some more."

Skrillex is taking over the planet! We’ve been talking about him on our socia... more

Skrillex is taking over the planet! We’ve been talking about him on our social networks and of course, he’s seen the light and used our vocal sample “Ruffneck Bass” for his huge hit anthem of the very same name. This sample comes from our “Urban & Dance Vocals” sound library.